Sentences with phrase «as paleoanthropologists»

As far as paleoanthropologists go, the focus is much narrower.

People who work in this field are known as paleoanthropologists.

As a paleoanthropologist, Berger studies fossils and cultural clues left behind by ancient humans and their relatives.

Not exact matches

Paleoanthropologists have disproven the basic premise that the modern human digestive system is the same as that of early humans, but research also suggests that a diet of unprocessed, hormone - free meat sources coupled with fresh fruits and vegetables has clear benefits.

A lengthy investigation by Science reveals allegations of sexual misconduct against noted paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond, as well as the field's response.

Drs. Harmand and Lewis co-directed the fieldwork and analysis of the findings as part of an international, multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, paleoanthropologists; there are 19 other co-authors on the paper.

When they try new reconstructions, paleoanthropologists often wind up damaging the fossils as they cut through the glue and varnish that held pieces together.

Venerable paleoanthropologist Tattersall opens his latest book recalling the time when, as a young researcher in the»70s, he traveled to the Comoros Islands to study lemurs and instead found himself in the midst of a coup.

In October 2004 paleoanthropologists announced the discovery of a new human species that lived as recently as 17,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores.

For years, some paleoanthropologists argued that hominins like the famous 3.1 - million - year - old Lucy weren't graceful on the ground because they retained traits for climbing trees, such as long fingers and toes.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Now there are 25,» says Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist and influential author of books such as Becoming Human.

Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.

«Terrestrial animals like antelopes and gazelles, elephants and rhinos and giraffes — all these bones show very similar fracture and breakage patterns as Lucy,» adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of ASU, co-discoverer of Lucy.

Most breaks on fossilized bones are «the result of geological processes well after death,» says paleoanthropologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, such as movement in water or soil, tectonic forces, pressure of overlying sediments, and weathering or trampling of fossils as they erode out of sandstone.

Just as a high - profile expedition to retrieve fossils of human ancestors from deep within a cave system in South Africa was getting underway in 2013, two spelunkers pulled aside paleoanthropologist Lee Berger.

Paleoanthropologist Christine Steininger, at the nearby Swartkrans site, explains that the area's abundance of fossils may be due to predators, such as ancestors of today's leopards, dragging their kills up trees.

That, at least, is what paleoanthropologist Christine Steininger says as we push our way up a gentle incline covered in waist - tall, brown and green grasses near Maropeng, a town about 45 minutes from Johannesburg, South Africa.

And though paleoanthropologists see the Rising Star discovery as a major breakthrough, some question whether there's enough evidence to prove that the hominins found in the cave are a new species.

But paleoanthropologists had for a long time assumed that the same did not apply in colder regions such as the Mammoth steppes.

Future studies will be needed to see if this pattern is found just in A. africanus or in other members of Australopithecus as well, says paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Other activities that the hominins engaged in frequently during development, such as digging tubers or climbing, might also explain the signs of stress, warns paleoanthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University in Ohio.

Turning up the pain threshold a notch, anatomist and paleoanthropologist Bruce Latimer of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, limped to the podium, dangling a twisted human backbone as evidence of real pain.

But these data don't directly measure brain shape, making it difficult to untangle precisely how quickly or slowly human brains became as round as they are today, says paleoanthropologist Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich.

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July 31, 2004 Added A look at Piltdown Man on the 50th anniversary of its exposure as a hoax, by paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.